Nicholas Trivet

Nicholas Trivet or Nicholas Trevet , Latinized Nicolaus Trivetus or Nicolaus Trevetus , (* around 1258 , † 1328 ) was an Anglo-Norman chronicler and Dominican .

Life

He was the son of judge Sir Thomas Trevet (died 1283), who came from a family in Norfolk or Somerset . Nicholas Trivet was a member of the Dominican Order in London and studied at Oxford and later in Paris. He was prior of his order in London for some time and taught at times in Oxford.

He is known as an author of theological and historical works (such as Bible Commentaries) and commentaries on classical authors such as Seneca . His chronicle Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt , which covers the period from 1136 to 1307 (especially during the reign of his contemporary King Edward I ), was printed . It appeared in Paris in 1668 and in Oxford in 1719 (and in an edition by Thomas Hogg for the English Historical Society in 1845). In addition, his commentary on the last twelve books of De civitate dei by Augustine appeared in print in Basel in 1479.

He also wrote a French Chronicle that is widely considered to be one of the sources of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale in the Canterbury Tales .

Fonts (selection)

Annales sex regum Angliae

• Nicolai Triveti, Dominicani, Annales Sex Regum Angliae . E praestantissimo Codice Glastoniensi nunc primum emendate edidit Antonius Hall, AM Coll. Regin. Oxon. Socius. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxonii 1719, online .
• Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio ; ut et Adami Murimuthensis Chronicon , cum Ejusdem Continuatione: Quibus accedunt Joannis Bostoni Speculum Coenobitarum , et Edmundi Boltoni Hypercritica . Omnia nunc primum edidit è Codicibus Manuscriptis Antonius Hallius, STP E Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxonii 1722, online .

Comments on the tragedies of Seneca

• Ezio Franceschini (Ed.): Il commento di Nicola Trevet al "Tieste" di Seneca. Milan, 1938.
• Petrus Meloni (Ed.): Nicolai Treveti expositio L. Annaei Senecae Agamemnonis. Rome 1961.
• Petrus Meloni (Ed.): Nicolai Treveti expositio L. Annaei Senecae Herculis Oetaei. Rome 1962.
• Vincentius Ussani, Jr. (Eds.): L. Annaei Senecae Hercules furens et Nicolai Treveti expositio. Vol.II: Nicolai Treveti Expositio Herculis furentis. Ediz.dell'Ateneo, Rome 1959.
• Marco Palma (Ed.): Nicola Trevet, Commento alle Troades di Seneca. Rome 1977.
• Rebekka Junge: Nicholas Trevet and Octavia Praetexta. Editio princeps of the medieval commentary and investigations into the pseudosenecan drama . Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-79064-1 , online
• Owen Howard Boehm: Treveth's commentary on the "Octavia": A critical edition . Diss. Loyola University Chicago 2003 (= Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2004 Sept., 65 (3): 919).
• Maria Chiabó (Ed.): Nichola Trevet, Commento alla Phaedra di Seneca. Edipuglia, Bari 2004 (Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis, 22). - Review by John G. Fitch, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 12/09/2004
• Luciana Roberti (Ed.): Nichola Trevet, Commento alla Medea di Seneca. Edipuglia, Bari 2004 (Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis, 23). - Review by John G. Fitch, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 12/09/2004
• Patrizia Mascoli (Ed.): Nichola Trevet, Commento alle Phoenissae di Seneca. Edipuglia, Bari 2007 (Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis, 31).
• Alessandro Lagioia (Ed.): Nichola Trevet, Commento all'Oedipus di Seneca. Edipuglia, Bari 2008 (Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis, 35).

literature

• Franco Caviglia: Commenti di ecclesiastici a Seneca Tragico: Trevet e Delrio , in: Antonio P. Martina (ed.), Seneca ei cristiani. Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Seneca ei cristiani”, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano 12–13–14 ottobre 1999. Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2000, pp. 351–363 = Aevum Antiquum 13, 2000, 351– 363, books.google.de .
• Simonetta Marchitelli: Nicholas Trevet and the Renaissance of the Seneca Tragedies . In: Museum Helveticum , 56, 1999, pp. 36–63.
• Simonetta Marchitelli: Nicholas Trevet and the Renaissance of the Seneca Tragedies II . In: Museum Helveticum , 56, 1999, pp. 87-104.
• Cristina Speggiorin: Il commento di Trevet alle Tragoediae di Seneca ei suoi riflessi sulle traduzioni catalana e castigliana, in: Annali di Ca 'Foscari. Rivista della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università di Venezia 36.1-2, 1997, pp. 599-613.
• Charles Lethbridge Kingsford:  Trivet, Nicholas . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 57:  Tom - Tytler. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1899, pp 234 - 236 (English).
• Edwin Burton: Nicholas Trivet . In: The Catholic Encyclopedia . Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912.

Web links

• Nicolas Trevet . Archives de littérature du Moyen Age (ARLIMA)
• James G. Clark: 'Trevet, Nicholas (b. 1257 × 65, d. In or after 1334)' . in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2014